The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-14
The Stove Mo,ders, Strike Extending.

CLEVELAND o., April ia happy event-a
wedding in Detroit to night-has postponed for
one day at least the beginning of the great stove
molders' strike. The stove manufacturers admit
that they have no hope of avertine the trouble,
and before the end Of the week they expect that
at least nine thousand men will be thrown out
of employment, and by this time next week that
fully eighteen thousand men will be idle because
of the great lockout Some days ago the mem
bers of the general executive committee Of the
were requested to attend meeting in this city
to-day to take definite action on the coming
strike The executive committee of the Third
district. Comprising the States of Ohio. Michi-
gan. Indiana. Kentucky, Tennessee, West Vir-
gna. that part of Pennsylvania west of the
Aleghenies, and the Southern States, was also
notified that a meeting would be held in this city
at the same time The general executive went
10 Louisville on Monday. to Cincinnati on Tues
day. a1d five members arrived in Cleveland this
morning. They met at o'clock, but did not
take any definite steps concerning the strike,
because of the absence of several members who
were in terested in a Wedding at Detroit night
The members of the general committee pres
ent were President Henry Cribben. of Chicago;
Secretary d. NJ. Thomas. of Louisville. KY;
Grange Sard, of Albany n. Y; w. w. Baldw
of this city, and G. E. Collins. of Chicago. The
five members of the third district committee, w.
w. Baldwin, of this city; James Dwyer of De-
troit; A. j. Redway, of Cincinnati; Joseph Bell,
of Wheeling, and j. ". Van Cleve, of Louisville,
were all present The morning passed in
consideration of the difficulties existing between
the Defense Association and the National Mold
ers Union. 1t was conceded by all that the
molders in the Third district would strike as
soon as the patterns sent from obnoxious found
ries in ST. Louis were put on the molding floors
of establishments in other districts. 1t was
nounced that the St Louis patterns had been
received in the Third district. and had been dis
tributed among all the foundries. The manu-
facturers stated that they were ready to put
them upon the floor as soon AS the general exec
utive committee issued an order to that effect.
Nothing had been accomplished at noon, when
the meeting adjourned to assemble in Detroit
tomorrow At the Detroit meeting the order
will be given to the manufacturers in this dis
trict to make castings for the St. Louis firms
that now at war with striking employees.
As soon as the manufacturers issue the order
the molders. it is said will strike. There
about two hundred and forty union molders en-
ployed in Cleveland, and their strike will throw
800 men out of employment
PITTsBURG. April 13.-The war between the
stove-mo6ers and the manufacturers has
reached Pittsburg, and from present indications
there will be a general strike within few days.
The manufacturers have made bold and def
ant move. They have formed an alliance known
as the Stove-founders National Defense Associ-
ation and this organization is conducting this
the manufacturers in this city, members of the
defense association. received a confidential cir
cular from ID. NJ. Thomas, secretary of the de-
fense association, dated at Louisville, April IL.
The circular, after reviewing the strike at St.
Louis which resulted from tho men first max
ing demand for Is per cent advance. states
that the patterns of the ooycotted st. Louis
firm, the Bridge 81 Beach company, will be sent
TO all the manufacturers in the country, and
that on a certain day the firms will be notified
by telegraph to have holdings made from the
same. The molders in this city say they will re-
fuse to mold from these patterns and that any
attempt to force them to do so will precipitate
strike in all foundries of the country. The gem
eral executive committee of the National De-
Tense Association is now in session in Cleve-
land. O., framing details for the coming fight,
which seems inevitable. The Stove molders
Union is one of the strongest trade organiza
tons in the country, and the contest promises
10 be most bitter
ST. LOUIS, April 13.--It is stated that the
molding department Of the Bridge a. Beach
Manufacturing Company Of this city will resume
operations by May with -union men from
outside the city. The Defense Association, it is
said, is surprised at the frmness shown by the
men in other cities where ST. Louis patterns
have been shipped. and ali interested firms have
concluded to make the fight at home.
The Buiding-Trades Strikes at Cincinnati
Special to the Indianapolis journal.
CINCINNATI, April 13-There is no change in
the carpenters strike. except that Mills & SPELL
mier acceded to the demands of their men, and
have started up their mill. Naturally enough
the strikers regard this as another indication
that the whole matter will he settled soon. The
hod-carrers still out. Their strike is begin
ming to cause trouble to other branches of the
building trades, and cessation of work sew
eral buildings has been necessitated. So far as
settlement :